BOARMIINI, ENNOMINAE, GEOMETRIDAE, GEOMETROIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Cathy Byrne & Stella Crossley |
(Photo: copyright Cathy Byrne)
The colour of this Caterpillar is brown with a pink and orange shaded patches. It feeds on the leaves of :
The adult moth is light brown with wavy transverse dark brown lines extending across both wings.
The eggs are red, oval, and minutely pitted all over.
Further reading :
Catherine J. Young,
Characterisation of the Australian Nacophorini and a Phylogeny for the
Geometridae from Molecular and Morphological Data,
Ph.D. thesis, University of Tasmania, 2003.
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(updated 4 April 2005, 19 December 2021)